According to ABODO figures — which are limited to listings on ABODO's site but nonetheless revealing — the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Seattle in 2017 was $1,658. As of Jan. 1, 2018, the price for a one-bedroom apartment in Seattle sits at $1,776.

A second rent report from San Francisco-based apartment rental site Zumper put Seattle's average one-bedroom rent at $1,810 for December. That figure left Seattle as the eighth most-expensive rental market in the nation, according to Zumper.